Lacing-hook.



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E. L. PUPKE.

LACING HOOK.

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UNITED STATES IATENT OFFICE.

EBERHARD L. PUPKE, OF EAST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO THE AGATINESHOE HOOK dc EYELET COMPANY, OF NEWARK, NElV JERSEY,

A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

LAClNG-HOOKf SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 710,210,dated September 30, 1902.

Application filed April 2, 1902. Serial No. 101,027. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, EBERHARD L. PUPKE, a citizen of the United States,residing at East Orange, in the county of Essex, State of New Jersey,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lacing-Hooks, ofwhich the following is a full and true description, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings, which illustrate my invention.

The object of my present invention is to produce a lacing-hook ofsimple, neat, and strong construction which will not catch or tear theclothing of the wearer. The new form of lacing-hook is especiallyadvantageous for the lacing of shoes and gloves.

In the accompanying drawings, wherein like letters indicate similarparts in the several views, Figure 1 is an enlarged sectional view of acoated hook embodying my present improvement. Fig. 2 is a like view ofthe hook of Fig. 1, which may be used without covering and shown asuncovered. Fig. 3 is a sectional view of. the book of Fig. 2 whenclenched into a shoe-upper or glove, and Fig.

4 shows a front View of a bare hook embody ing my invention.

In the accompanying drawings Ihave shown my new form of hook providedwith an eyelet adapted to be clenched. into a shoe-upper or.

glove or other article G. My inventionm ay, however, be embodied inhooks having other forms of attachable or clenching or gripping parts.

Referring to Figs. 1, 2, and 3, A indicates 5 the clenching-shank,provided with an eyelet B. 0 indicates the head of the hook, and Dindicates its bill. As shown in Fig. 1, the head Ormay be covered withan applied protecting material, or, as in Fig. 2, it may be bare, and itmay or may not be integral with the clenching-shank or attaching member.The bill D may be the extremity of the-protecting material oriofthe-bare metallic head.

Prior to my invention, so far as I am aware,

5 the bills, as D, of lacing-hooks have usually projected above theclenching-body or eyelet of the hook in a plane substantially parallelwith the upper edge of the eyelet, and as a result a space was leftbetween the bill of the hook and the upper surface of the eyelet orother attaching member, into which could readily enter not only theshoe-lace or the glove-lace, but portions of wearing-apparel such aslace trimmings of a dress, wrist-ruffles, &'c.-resulting in injury ordestruction of portions of such fabrics and also interference with theuse of the hooks for their regular purposes, as will readily beappreciated.

My invention, which obviates the difficulties and annoyances referredto, consists in providing the lacing-hook with a bill which enters tosome extent within or into the eyelet or attachingmember of the hook,and which bill or hook end is in substantially the same plane as theupper surface of the clenching part of the hook. I prefer, as shown inFigs. 1 and 2, that the head of the hook shall be integral with theclenching-eyelet or other attaching part and that the edges of said heador of the applied covering at andnear the bill D shall be carefullyrounded in order that loops or openings in lace or other fabric shallnot find opportunity to catch upon the bill of the hook.

In order to permit the shoe-lace or glovelace to pass readily underneaththe bill of the hook, the bill is out of contact with the Walls of theeyelet or recess B.

It will be especially noted that the space between the bill andattaching member of the book used prior to my invention is not presentin my improved book, the bill of the preferred form (shown in Figs. 1,2, and 3) being located over and entering into the eyelet B andterminating ata point slightly below the upper surface of said eyelet.Instead therefore of entering between the bill and the eyelet thethreads of any fabric, &c., will in use pass over the top of the head,as shown by the dotted line of Fig. 3; butwhen employ- 9o ing the bookas a lacing-hook with shoe-laces or glove-laces the lace can be and isinserted under the bill D, as allowed by the space left below such bill,owing to the eyelet of the hook, and so the lace will enter beneath thehead of the hook, as shown at H in Fig. 4E.

I c1ai1n ters the opening of the attaching member, In an openlacing-hook permitting the passubstantially as described. 10

sage of a lace between the bill and bocly of In witness whereof I havehereunto signed the hook, an attaching member having an my name this26th day of March, 1902.

opening in its upper face, and a head over- EBERHARD L. PUPKE. hangingand secured to the attaching mem- In presence of her and provided with adownwardly-extendi ing bill, the complete extremity of which en- WM. H.BERRIGAN, J r., W. S. J ONES.

